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Maybe forcing separation of content providing companies and advertising companies should be the modern equivalent of separating State from Church.

An advertising company would always want to get more and more infos about the users that it sees as "resources" instead of customers. A content providing company would be forced to treat its users as actual customers and respect their rights at least a bit, and would push back against the advertising company asking for more surveillance data.

Now, unfortunately this can't actually work because the more an advertising company makes, the more it can afford to pay the content creators/channels/providers, and everyone just wants more $.

But if anyone has any idea how to make it work, do share!